1.Crawl,creep refer to methods of moving like reptiles or worms, or on all fours. They are frequently interchangeable, but crawl is used of a more prostrate movement than creep: A dog afraid of punishment crawls toward his master.Creep expresses slow progress: A child creeps before walking or running.

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[krawl] /krɔl/

noun, Chiefly South Atlantic States.

1.

an enclosure in shallow water on the seacoast, as for confining fish, turtles, etc.:

c.1200, creulen, from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse krafla "to claw (one's way)," from the same root as crab (n.1). If there was an Old English *craflian, it has not been recorded. Related: Crawled; crawling.

n.

1818, from crawl (v.); in the swimming sense from 1903, the stroke developed by Frederick Cavill, well-known English swimmer who emigrated to Australia and modified the standard stroke of the day after observing South Seas islanders. So called because the swimmer's motion in the water resembles crawling.

crawl

Text that scrolls up the television screen, esp explaining what happened to the characters of a ''based on fact'' docudrama: And a crawl going up the screen saying she's pleaded no contest/ The use of crawl to finish a quasi-historical story(1960s+)

verb

To do the sex act with; mount •Actually used by the 1890s to mean ''mount and manage a horse'': I finally crawled Mary Jane Cummings last night(1940s+)

To reprimand severely; CHEW someone OUT: ''To crawl'' meant what Second World War troops meant by ''chew out''(WWI Army)